Author: Eva Sallis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113681745X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
The Thousand and One Nights was reborn into an alien environment in 1704, its signs being received in a radically different way from their original meanings. Works of literature change as people and cultures who read them change. This study explores the Nights with reference to this view of literature.
Sheherazade Through the Looking Glass
Rethinking Madness: Interdisciplinary and Multicultural Reflections
Author: Gonzalo Araoz
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004373950
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004373950
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
New Perspectives on Arabian Nights
Author: Wen-chin Ouyang
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317983939
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this comparative study of a selection of The Arabian Nights stories in a cross-cultural context, brings together a number of disciplines and subject areas to examine the workings of narrative. It predominantly focuses on the ways in which the Arabian Nights have transformed as its stories have travelled across historical eras, cultures, genres and media. Departing from the familiar approaches of influence and textual studies, this book locates its central inquiry in the theoretical questions surrounding the workings of ideology, genre and genre ideology in shaping and transforming stories. The ten essays included in this volume respond to a general question, ‘what can the transformation of Nights stories in their travels tell us about narrative and storytelling, and their function in a particular culture?’ Following a Nights story in its travels from past to present, from Middle East to Europe and from literature to film, the book engages in close comparative analyses of ideological variations found in a variety of texts. These analyses allow new modes of reading texts and make it possible to breach new horizons for thinking about narrative. This Book was previously published as a special issue of Middle Eastern Literatures entitled Ideological Variations and Narrative Horizons: New Perspectives on Arabian Nights.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317983939
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this comparative study of a selection of The Arabian Nights stories in a cross-cultural context, brings together a number of disciplines and subject areas to examine the workings of narrative. It predominantly focuses on the ways in which the Arabian Nights have transformed as its stories have travelled across historical eras, cultures, genres and media. Departing from the familiar approaches of influence and textual studies, this book locates its central inquiry in the theoretical questions surrounding the workings of ideology, genre and genre ideology in shaping and transforming stories. The ten essays included in this volume respond to a general question, ‘what can the transformation of Nights stories in their travels tell us about narrative and storytelling, and their function in a particular culture?’ Following a Nights story in its travels from past to present, from Middle East to Europe and from literature to film, the book engages in close comparative analyses of ideological variations found in a variety of texts. These analyses allow new modes of reading texts and make it possible to breach new horizons for thinking about narrative. This Book was previously published as a special issue of Middle Eastern Literatures entitled Ideological Variations and Narrative Horizons: New Perspectives on Arabian Nights.
Myth of the Silent Woman
Author: Suellen Diaconoff
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Beginning in the 1980s and gathering force in the last decade of the twentieth century, Moroccan women writers have become the latest group of Middle Eastern women to break their silence by writing both fiction and non-fiction. The Myth of the Silent Woman examines representative French-language texts from Moroccan women writers. Suellen Diaconoff situates these works in a discourse of social justice and reform, arguing that they contribute to the emerging national debate on democracy and help to create new public spaces of discourse and participation. In novels and short stories, essays and memoirs, including one powerful text by a dissident and former political prisoner, these authors contest hegemonic systems of thought and practice, reappraise traditional spaces and limits, shatter taboos and transgress borders. In so doing, they profoundly undermine easy assumptions about Arab women, feminism, and democracy, while boldly challenging the stereotype of the silent woman.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Beginning in the 1980s and gathering force in the last decade of the twentieth century, Moroccan women writers have become the latest group of Middle Eastern women to break their silence by writing both fiction and non-fiction. The Myth of the Silent Woman examines representative French-language texts from Moroccan women writers. Suellen Diaconoff situates these works in a discourse of social justice and reform, arguing that they contribute to the emerging national debate on democracy and help to create new public spaces of discourse and participation. In novels and short stories, essays and memoirs, including one powerful text by a dissident and former political prisoner, these authors contest hegemonic systems of thought and practice, reappraise traditional spaces and limits, shatter taboos and transgress borders. In so doing, they profoundly undermine easy assumptions about Arab women, feminism, and democracy, while boldly challenging the stereotype of the silent woman.
The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia
Author: Ulrich Marzolph
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian nights
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian nights
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Marvels & Tales
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Journal of fairy-tale studies.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Journal of fairy-tale studies.
Fire and Shadow
The Longman Anthology of World Literature
Author: David Damrosch
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
Book Description
This volume samples a broad range of literature from the ancient world. It offers extensive selections from The Bible, The Book of Songs, The Mahabharata, The Ramayana, and Virgil's Aenid, as well as seven longer works in their entirety, including The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Odyssey .
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
Book Description
This volume samples a broad range of literature from the ancient world. It offers extensive selections from The Bible, The Book of Songs, The Mahabharata, The Ramayana, and Virgil's Aenid, as well as seven longer works in their entirety, including The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Odyssey .
Shamans Unbound
Author: Mihály Hoppál
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shamanism
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shamanism
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Nottingham French Studies
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African literature (French)
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African literature (French)
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description